british ship
collocation in EnglishmeaningsofBritishandship
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british
adjective
uk/ˈbrɪt.ɪʃ/us/ˈbrɪt̬.ɪʃ/
belonging to or relating to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland or ...
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ship
noun[C]
uk/ʃɪp/us/ʃɪp/
a large boat for travelling on water, especially across ...
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(Definition ofbritishandshipfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Britishshipowners are prepared to admit that fact.
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Britishshipowners are perfectly free to register their ships under foreign flags if they so wish.
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Britishshiprepair interests, however, sadly lost £16 million last year on a turnover of £68 million.
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Britishshipowners are of course free—they are a very large industry—to buy where they can.
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Britishshipowners have a major role to play in the market.
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British ships, subject to certain exceptions related to size and area of operations, must carry portable radio equipment for use in emergency.
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British ships all over the world must comply with the load line.
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British ships are as much an export as linen goods or cotton goods or anything else.
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British ships are the blood corpuscles which run in those veins and arteries.
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British ships and foreign ships: all coal going foreign.
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British ships were once the pride of the world.
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British ships are being driven out by direct or indirect government action.
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British ships provide an economic lifeline for this country by carrying nearly half our imports and over half our exports.
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British ships are again earning foreign cash by carrying the world's goods across the seven seas.
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British ships were allowed to go in, and it so happens that the shipping returns for those two months were higher than for any months since the war began.
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British ships, notably cruisers and battleships, were well protected by about 1943.
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British ships did not participate in any major wars in the ironclad period.
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British ships had inadequate protection against these flash fires.
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British ships both failed to report engagements with the enemy but also, in the case of cruisers and destroyers, failed to actively seek out the enemy.
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British ships were not available.
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